Chuckey is a medium-sized town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 15,467 people and four associated neighborhoods, Chuckey is the largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Chuckey is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chuckey is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chuckey who work in management occupations (11.63%), teaching (9.37%), and sales jobs (8.93%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.56% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Chuckey has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chuckey a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Chuckey is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Chuckey, the average commute to work is 30.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Chuckey is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Chuckey with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.07% of adults in Chuckey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Chuckey in 2022 was $31,614, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,456 for a family of four. However, Chuckey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Chuckey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chuckey residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Chuckey include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Chuckey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Polish.
